Despite increased awareness of the link between mild head injury (MHI) and long-term negative functional outcomes, there is a relative paucity of research investigating modifiable risk factors that contribute to chronic ...

It has long been debated whether objects stored in visual short-term memory (VSTM) are maintained as discrete items or as a continuous resource. While much recent behavioral evidence has supported a continuous resource ...

Mechanisms of central nervous system (CNS) impairment during hyperthermia are largely task-dependent. This thesis sought to compare neuromuscular responses of an isometric force and position task during passive hyperthermia, ...

The current study was designed to gain a greater understanding of how transition planning is being done in the Niagara Region, as per the Integrated Transition Protocol, and to examine the barriers to the enactment of this ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, hydroelectric power development along the Niagara River rapidly transformed the Town and Village of Niagara Falls, Ontario into an industrial city. The community changed demographically ...

Non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) is concerned with the algorithm generation of images having unrealistic characteristics, for example, oil paintings or watercolour. Using genetic programming to evolve aesthetically ...

In this work we investigate granular chains, which are one-dimensional systems of discrete macroscopic particles interacting via the intrinsically nonlinear Hertz law. Such systems support the propagation of solitary waves ...

There are two projects in this thesis.
In the first project, a general method is introduced to numerically calculate the resistance of truncated resistors in cylindrical coordinates, with non-constant cross-sectional area. ...

Repetitive behaviors are prevalent in a number of neurodevelopmental disorders including autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID). A subset of repetitive behaviors found in ASD and ID can be ...

The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the perceived benefits and challenges of Canada Basketball’s athlete development model (ADM)/long-term athlete development (LTAD) by administrators, learning facilitators, ...

This study explores the profiles of children who are at-risk for reading disabilities on both traditional reading-based tasks and measures of creativity. Twenty-six (26) children referred to the Learning Disabilities ...

This concurrent triangulation mixed methods research project sought to investigate inconsistencies in the current literature regarding student attitudes towards their peers who have exceptionalities. The study encompassed ...

Therapeutic recreation (TR) is an important contributor to the health and well-being of residents living in long term care (LTC). In order to enhance quality of life of residents, it is essential that Therapeutic Recreationists ...

This paper examines how social enterprises – organizations that use marketplaces to create both social and economic value – compete with one another and how they perceive of other social enterprises. I conducted a study ...

In Canada, a person who performs an illegal act that is deemed to be the result of a mental disorder is eligible for the not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder (NCRMD) defence. In recent years, some ...

Fire blight, caused by bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is a very serious disease affecting apple, pear and other fruit plants. The development of phage-based biopesticides is currently in progress in our lab. Emergence of ...

Lichens, although ubiquitous and morphologically diverse, are one group of organisms that remains under-represented in life history and demographic studies, especially in early years. A photographic time series and image ...

Researchers have examined whether certain physical characteristics are associated with sexual orientation to gain insight into the mechanisms that may be implicated in its development. Three relatively new and/or understudied ...

This study examined whether fluctuations in training load during an Olympic year lead to changes in mineral properties and factors that regulate bone (sclerostin (SOST), osteoprotegerin (OPG)), and receptor activator of ...

The use of two different chelating/bridging ligands, naphthalene-2,3-diol (ndH2) and acenaphthenequinone dioxime (acndH2), in heterometallic 3d/4f-metal cluster chemistry has yielded two new families of polynuclear CuII/LnIII ...